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  • Motorists stand to save £10 a month as the cost of fuel plummets 17 Dec 2014 (News)
    Motorists stand to save as much as £10 a month on fuel following a new round of price cuts at the forecourt.  Based on a Nissan Qashqai 1.2 DIG-T, a typical owner covering 10,000 miles per year will save around £10 per month compared to the summer
  • Sainsbury’s cuts fuel prices to under £1 per litre 25 Feb 2015 (News)
    or online. The offer applies to petrol and diesel, with each customer receiving a 10p voucher for every transaction in store or online. The voucher can then be used at any of Sainsbury's 300 forecourts. Fuel prices are already at a five year low, saving motorists
  • Supermarket diesel prices drop again 27 Jul 2015 (News)
    . The cost of diesel in June 2014 was, on average, 136.1 pence-per-litre. The latest fuel price reductions mean the cost of filling a 40-litre diesel tank is around £9 lower today than it was in June 2014. Additionally diesel is currently cheaper than petrol at most supermarkets for the first time
  • ASDA and Tesco provide some Christmas cheer with cut in fuel prices 17 Dec 2013 (News)
    litre for diesel. Both retailers said they would aim to keep the prices low to reflect the fall in cost of wholesale fuel. With drivers planning to travel on average 819 miles this December, ASDA said it will bring "some festive cheer" to hard pressed motorists. Andy Peake
  • 33 Peugeot Models in £35 Tax Bracket 9 Aug 2008 (News)
    1998: Peugeot launches its first common rail HDi diesel engines resulting in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions being cut by 20% compared with an indirect injection diesel engine. The increased efficiency of the engine also reduces particulate emissions by 60% and other emissions by between 40 and 50
  • Buying a new crossover: petrol or diesel? 4 Apr 2016 (News)
    Diesel always offers higher average mpg ratings on paper, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it always provides the lowest overall running costs compared to a petrol equivalent; diesel costs more at the pumps and there’s always a purchase premium, so it often takes unfeasibly
  • Alternative fuel systems revealed at Detroit show 14 Jan 2008 (News)
    Three new concepts from Chrysler have been unveiled by the automobile manufacturer at the Detroit Auto Show. Among them is the Bluetec diesel engine, found in the Jeep Renegade concept, which provides fuel economy almost five times as large of a petrol-only model. Similarly
  • Fuel prices could rise even higher as Government considers ending fuel duty freeze 4 Jul 2018 (News)
    £20 billion on the NHS by 2023, but concerns over the rising cost of living might see the plan being blocked in the Commons. Aside from the fact that petrol and diesel in the UK are subject to some of the highest levels of taxation anywhere in Europe, fuels are also at their highest prices
  • Asda to cut the price of petrol and diesel by 2p per litre 8 Aug 2011 (News)
    Asda has announced that it is cutting the cost of petrol and diesel by 2p per litre from tomorrow. It's the first indication that the falling oil price will be reflected on the forecourts. The supermarket claims that from Tuesday morning, motorists won't pay more than
  • Pump prices tumble as supermarkets go to war (again) 30 Oct 2013 (News)
    per litre cut in the cost of petrol and diesel. Asda has responded by launching a national price cap on its fuel prices, which means customers will pay no more than pay 126.7p per litre of unleaded or 133.7p per litre for diesel Tesco has pledged to reduce its prices by 2p per litre
  • Company car tax: What are AFR payments? 26 Feb 2016 (News)
    AFR (advisory fuel rate) payments are the expenses company car drivers can claim for travelling on business in the vehicle provided by employers. As the vehicle is taxed, insured
  • Fuel shortages and prices hikes expected to continue into 2022 5 Oct 2021 (News)
    averages.” The current UK average fuel prices are 139.10p for diesel and 136.78p for petrol.  What’s perhaps more concerning
  • Spending review: diesel company car tax supplement to stay 25 Nov 2015 (News)
    will delay the removal of the diesel supplement on company cars until 2021." The official test cycle, which measures vehicle fuel consumption and emissions under lab conditions, has come under increased scrutiny since Volkswagen Group admitted that many of its cars were fitted with cheat devices
  • June marks the end of four months of rising prices at the pumps 3 Jul 2019 (News)
    Four months of rising fuel prices finally came to an end in June, with both petrol and diesel falling dramatically due to a fall in the wholesale cost of oil. The average price of unleaded dropped 3p-per-litre from 130.67p to 127.62p while diesel reduced 4.61p from
  • Huge Engine Technology Breakthrough From FIAT 7 Mar 2009 (News)
    NEW MULTIAIR TECHNOLOGY MEANS MORE POWER, LESS FUEL, LOWER EMISSIONS Already a world leader in advanced diesel engine technology, Fiat Group has just launched MultiAir, a fundamental breakthrough in petrol engine design that will dramatically cut fuel consumption, as well
  • Petrol prices rise as oil recovers to pre-pandemic levels 8 Feb 2021 (News)
    The price of petrol rose by 3.5p to 120p a litre in January – a price that was last seen the day before the first Covid-19 lockdown on 22 March 2020 and the third consecutive monthly increase, data from RAC Fuel Watch reveals. Diesel also went up by more than
  • Comment: Is our dirty affair with diesel coming to an end? 10 Nov 2014 (News)
    of their intellect towards the black pump. The results have been staggering in every way. Take the Volkswagen Golf GTD, for example, which is arguably as good as the petrol-powered GTI before you start thinking about 47.1mpg vs. 67.3mpg fuel consumption. But in 1999, while GT-badged diesel Golfs were quick
  • 'Cheaper petrol and diesel' petition within touching distance of 100,000 signatures 30 Sep 2011 (News)
    and diesel are now so astronomically expensive, it is COSTING the Government money. This is because fewer people can afford to drive, leading to lower tax revenues. Therefore, this petition calls on the Government to: 1) Scrap the planned 4p fuel duty increases, which are scheduled for January and August
  • Fiat renews Panda engine line-up 21 Jul 2011 (News)
    . The 1.3-litre diesel is only available in top-spec Dynamic trim, and costs £12,285. Elena Bernardelli, marketing director, Fiat Group Automobiles UK and Ireland said: “The addition of the Euro 5 engine to the line-up makes the Panda an even more tempting choice for drivers looking to save on fuel
  • Trident Iceni: new 190mph diesel supercar 29 Apr 2014 (News)
    Trident has unveiled the production version of its new Iceni supercar, which has a claimed maximum speed of 190mph and a range of 2000 miles between refills. According to its maker this makes it, 'the world’s fastest and most fuel efficient diesel sports car.' It's priced from
 

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